Alexander Wagner, niedziela, 20 lipca 2008: >> I still don't get it why can't we really care about users. >Michal, you're wrong here. Acutally, I always care about >users. More that you may notice. ;) I understood you insist on removing/not implementing features requested by users, just because these features can be achieved in power user's way. I may be wrong, but I was trying to oppose 'doing it developer's way' policy too many times.
>> I think that is one of the reasons why Open Source >> applications so often fail. Whether we like it or now, it >> s more important to make it is easy for average user than >> to make in clean and/or really powerful for advanced >> users. >I'd second that. I do not second the though, that any >application should take care on its own about life, earth >and everything. Actually, I find this pretty userunfriendly >as you have to learn everything for every app again and >again. I understand your point but the features we discuss are neither really complicated nor easy to do the other way. >> And I find File Finder useful, mostly because Tcl file >> dialog is so user-unfriendly. >Well, it takes about half a minute to fill in and then I get >a pretty unstructured list. Anyway, I do not need to like >it as I do not need to use it ;) I think I am lost here. >> Do you think all the features you don't use should be >> removed from Scid? >No. >I just feel adding Drag&Drop (if this is possible in TCL at >all) would be much more usefull compared to an not even >second class file manager. Why should we only have one of these? As I wrote before, File Finder is just a better file browser than a very awkard Tcl one. >Think about the ability to click on a PGN file from within >your normal file manager and it fires up in Scid, opens >there if scid is already running or starts Scid if not. (The >second part is easily done, the first AFAIK no possible >now.) If I remember correctly, there was a script to do both (writtern by Shane himself?) I will try to check this. >I think that the main point to get things easy for the user >is to integrate with the stuff that the user already uses. >Instead of building a file manager I'd think it is much more >usefull to reuse the existing one and integrate with that. >Thats all. But, what is your suggestion for a very simple case: user (this means Windows user in 95% of cases) wants to delete database. If we add 'Delete database' command, we can do it by single menu item+confirmation. Is there any other easy way? Is it: 1. Open my Computer or Exporer 2. Find database directory 3. Select appropriate files (how should user know which files are relevant?) 4. Remove them 5. Confirm I find this not only more difficult, but also more error-prone. -- Michal Rudolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
